Mainframe MQ Administrator / IBM MQ Mainframe Administrator

Tata Consultancy Services Limited; Taguig; On-site; PHP 670,000 - 1,339,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services Limited in Metro Manila seeks an IBM MQ Administrator to install, upgrade, maintain and troubleshoot MQ environments. You will design architectures for new applications and define MQ objects such as queues, channels and topics while supporting adjacent systems like CICS, DB2 and IMS.

The role requires hands-on MQ proficiency, clustering knowledge, and routine health checks, with 24x7 on-call support as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience in IBM MQ product installation, upgrades, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Ability to design MQ architecture for new applications.
• Experience with MQ objects - queues, channels, topics, and definitions.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor MQ environments; ensure online health and performance.
• Design MQ architecture patterns for message processing flows.
• Define MQ objects: queues, channels, topics and definitions.
• Execute MQ utilities for queue message handling (backup and deletions).
• Adopt pagesets and bufferpools according to growth of MQ usage.
• Knowledge of MQ clustering and queue sharing for resilience.
• Coordinate with IBM/ISV vendors for incidents and software downloads.
• Provide 24x7 on-call support as required for supported products.
• Collaborate with related systems (CICS, DB2, IMS) interfaces.

Skills

IBM MQ administration

MQ monitoring

MQ architecture design

MQ objects definition

MQ utilities

CICS/DB2 knowledge

MQ clustering

SMF/MQ CPU analysis

MQSeries & MQClients

Z/OS COBOL basics

Tools

MQ Explorer

Omegamon for MQ

TEPS

Job description

• Experience in IBM MQ product installation, upgrades, maintenance, configurations and troubleshooting.
• Expertise in administrating, alert setup and monitoring the message process using tools like MQ explorer, Omegamon for MQ and TEPS.
• Design the MQ architecture pattern for the message processing flow as per the new application requirement
• Defining the MQ objects queues, channel, process definition, Topic, etc .
• Skilled at executing IBM MQ utilities to handle the MQ queue messages(backup, deleting a particular records etc..)
• Maintain and adopt the new pagesets & bufferpool according to the application growth in MQ
• Knowledge on the MQ queue sharing and MQ clustering to handle the queue managers and its components.
• Strong knowledge on MQ queue manager creation/migration and daily health check and dead letter queue process automation
• Good understanding of messaging interfaces and connections to the IBM other products (such as CICS, DB2, IMS..) and third party application servers.
• Perform MQ online monitoring, investigate MQ CPU usage using SMF statistics analyze
• Nice to have knowledge with MQSeries and MQClients on distributed platforms.
• Nice to have knowledge Mainrame zOS, JCL, VSAM, ISPF and COBOL.
• IBM and ISV Vendor Coordination for Ticketing Incidents/Problems, SW downloads, Escalations
• Provide 24x7 after hours on-call support as required for products supported by the team